Cutting-pliers



(No Model.)

T. D. I-IOTGHKISS.

CUTTING PLIERS.

N0. 280,8Z5., Patented July 10, 1883.

UNITED- STATES PATENT -OFFI E.

TIMOTHY D. HOTCHKISS, OF HIGGANUM, CONNECTICUT.

CUTTI N G-PL| ERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,825, dated July 10,1883.

Application filed J nne 17, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known'that I, TIMO HY D. Horon- KISS, of Higganum, in the countyof Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Outting-Pliers, of which the following is adescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whereFigurel is a side view. Fig. 2is a view similar to Fig. 1, with a sideplate removed, so as to show what is behind it. Fig. 3 is a top view.Fig. 4 is a view in section on the plane as as.

My improvement mainly pertains to that class of cutting-pliers havingtwo lever-handles with a short lever intermediate between them; and itconsists in the combinations of parts set out in the claims at the endof this de scription. g r

The letter a denotes a lever-handle, the up per end of which carries oneof the detachable cutters.

The letter 1) denotes a short lever pivoted to the lever-handle a,intermediate between that lever-handle and the other lever-handle, c. Ashort lever, 12, carries the other of the detachable cutters, and thespring d tends to press the levers a and b apart.

The letters 0 e denote two side plates, which are attached to the sidesof the levers a and c, the latter being pivoted therein.

The short lever 12 has in what may be called its outer side a socket, b,for the reception of the rounded side of the rocking shaft f.

The lever-handle c has in what may be called its inner side a U-shapedsocket, c, for the reception of the U-shaped side of the rocking shaft.

It isobvious that by pressing the lower ends of thetwo lever-handlestogether the two outters will be caused to meet, and that on releasingsuch pressure the spring will throw the two outters apart. Theimprovement in this regard consists in the use of the rocking shaft f asan intermediate between the short lever b and the lever 0, these twolevers being appropriately socketed for shaft.

I am aware that the general combination of these three levers is old;but the particular combination by which the movements of the levers band c are connected is new.

the reception of this rocking.

The letters 9 9 denote the detachable and interchangeable cutters. Theheads of the levers a and b are furnished with the recess h,

having one side at a right angle to the bottom of the recess and theother side at an acute an gle to the bottom of the recess.

The screw i may be used to keep the cutters from accidentaldisplacement.

I claim as my invention- 1. .In combination, the handle-lever a, theintermediate lever, I), having the socket b, the handle-lever 0, havingthe socketc, the rocking sha'ft f, and the side plates, 6 c, all sub I

